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“Rise free from care before the dawn, and seek adventures.”
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“So this was the rest of his life. It felt like a party to which he'd been invited, but at an address he couldn't actually locate. Someone must be having fun at it, this life of his; only, right at the moment, it wasn't him.”
― Oryx and Crake
― Oryx and Crake
“This is the middle of my life, I think of it as a place, like the middle of a river, the middle of a bridge, halfway across, halfway over. I'm supposed to have accumulated things by now: possessions, responsibilities, achievements, experience and wisdom. I'm supposed to be a person of substance.”
― Cat’s Eye
― Cat’s Eye
“It's old light, and there's not much of it. But it is enough to see by.”
― Cat’s Eye
― Cat’s Eye
“They have a certain gaiety to them, a power of invention, they don't care what people think. They have escaped, though what it is they've escaped from isn't clear to us. We think that their bizarre costumes, their verbal tics, are chosen, and that when the time comes we also will be free to choose. "That's what I'm going to be like,”
― Cat’s Eye
― Cat’s Eye
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